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Unit 2: The Beginning Of Art Flashcards

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Cave painting in Lubang Jeriji Saleh, Borneo
40k BCE
possibly 1 of the oldest art

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Ochre drawing on rock in Blombos Cave, South Africa
70k BCE
First evidence of artistic tendency

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Shark tooth scratch on shell in Java
500k BCE
might be decorative patterns

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Women from Willendorf (sometimes called Venus of Willendorf)
25k-30k years ago
Don’t really know purpose, but might be for worship as inferred by name (names of things hold a lot of sway)

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Venus de milo
Alexandros of Antioch - 100 BCE
similar to woman from Willendorf

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Birth of Venus
Botticelli- mid 1480s
Similar to woman from Willendorf

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Woman (Venus) of Lespugue
25k years ago
Similar objects are found throughout Europe. It is made of ivory. Don’t know its purpose

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Mother Goddess
Laussel, France - 19 to 22k years ago
Curve of stone suggests pregnancy, suggesting she could be a fertility goddess

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Is there more female or male figures in historical art figures?

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Female

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Cave painting
A lot of them came from singular area in Europe because they just happened to be in caves that got closed off and hadn’t been disturbed

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Chauvet
30k BCE
theory of artistic development is proven wrong by paintings that were very detailed at an early point in history

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Addaura, Sicily
8k BCE
Human figures are not the stereotypical stick figures. animal figures are more common than people drawings in cave art

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What does agriculture do for art?

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Allows for permanent dwellings, which gave us architecture. It also allowed for decoration and more art forms because people didn’t have to travel with it

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Tell-es-Sultan Jericho, Jordan
6-7k BCE
Plastered skull sculpture. It is built up with clay around an actual skull

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Tell-es-Sultan Jericho, Jordan

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8500BCE
evidence of a town there with defensive walls and a tower

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Catel Huyuk, Turkey
6500BCE
It wasn’t about having a walled city. As the city expanded, the houses built the walls. It was very defensive without having to build walls and it was easy to expand

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Dancing hunter
Catal Huyuk, Turkey 5800BCE
Evidence of first fresco on permanent dwelling walls

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The thinker and the sitting woman
Cernavoda, Romania- 4000 to 3500 BCE

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The thinker
Auguste Rodin
1904

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